Improved bread and meat cutter



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVED BREAD AND MEAT CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,225, dated August 8, 1865. l

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, WM. BUDD and J. L. l HUSBAND, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cutting Bread, Wax, and Dried Beef; and we hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had t0 the annexed drawing and the letters thereon, making part of this specication.

Figure 1 indicates a front View thereof', and Fig. 2 the side View.

Letter Ain Fig. l indicates the knife in its through-cut position. The letter B in the same figure indicates the knife in its swung up or cutting posit-ion. This motion ot' the knife is effected by placing the left hand tirinly upon the bottom of the frameD and grasping in the right hand the handle ofthe knife when the cutting motion can be eEected within its range. v

The letters C indicate the figures of the two connecting-rods axed t0 the knife and frame by sinalljournals, (indicated by the letters C `in Fig. 2,) by which the knife is given its range in the frame.

LetterF in Fig. l indicates one ofthe grooves in which the knife plays, and which is understood by the upright posts as seen crossing the blade of the knife A in Fig. 2.

The letter G indicates the backboard of the frame D, against which the material to be cut must be firmly held and adjusted by the left hand while the knifeis made to cut by the right hand. The bottom and backboard of the frame of our cutter should be, for instance, as long as the blade of the knife, which for cutting bread should be some eighteen inches long. The width of the bottom of the frame should knife. The backboard of the frame D should be in height ve-eighths of the width of the bottom. The connecting-rods C should be in length six-tenths of the length of the blade of the knife, the one next the handle of the knife one-eighth of an inch shorter than the other from center to center of the journals indicated by C', so as to incline the point of the knife below its horizontal line whenits swung ter B. Y

The vertical posts of the frame D must be adjusted in length to suit the lengthof the connecting-rods and width of the blade of the knife. The cross-bar of the frame D in which the upper ends of the rods C are aixed must be adjusted to snit said rods and knife.

The groovesin the vertical posts of the frame D must be of sufcient width to allow the knife to work easily, and in length to suit 'the rods C, which should be axed on the o side of said posts from the handle of the knife, as seen in Fig. 2. One end ot' each connectingrod C must be slotted out, so as to ft the ten: ons on the back of the knife, through which thejournals C are affixed. (See Fig. 2.) The journals C( in the cross-bar of the frame D must fit easily, so as to remove the knife when needed.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination and application of the rods C, frame D, and knife A, Fig. 2, as hereubefore substantially set forth, and for the purpose described. l

WILLIAM BUDD.l J. L. HUSBAND.

Witnesses:

WM. H. BUTLER,

be one-half the length of the blade of the JN0. GOODYEAR.

up to its cutting position, as seen in Fig. 2,let 

